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Book review: ‘The Rise and Reign of the Mammals’ is Steve Brusatte’s sweeping history of how mammals took over the world
[In] The Rise and Reign of the Mammals, paleontologist Steve Brusatte’s [recounts the] sweeping history of the animals that have, ...
How politics can impact health: ‘Stark partisan divide’ in premature death rates among Democrat and Republican voters
In an ideal world, public health would be independent of politics. Yet recent events in the U.S., such as the ...
Viewpoint: ‘Unfettered optimism’? A tiny cancer trial reports a ‘100% cure rate’ with immunotherapy — but are headlines overstating the promise?
When the New York Times tripped off a cascade of upbeat stories this week with its reporting on a 100% ...
Consumer paradox: As media turn less negative on genetically modified crops, Canadian consumers remain ambivalent about innovative food products
Canadians have high trust in Canada’s food safety system, but not new food products Gauging consumer attitudes to genetically modified ...
What are the Challenges Facing Modern Farming Around the World?
Mary Boote, Chief Executive Officer of the GlobalFarmer Network | June 12, 2018Highlights: Agricultural biotech solutions are being denied to ...
Viewpoint: Introduction of gene edited foods heightens consumer confusion over what ‘genetic modification’ really means
It’s a fickle world, journalism. On 23 May, the Daily Mail announced plans by the UK Government to speed up production of ...
Viewpoint: Is Russia undermining global food security by funding European-based environmental activists opposed to genetically modified crops?
Why is Europe's political class questioning the effectiveness of modern agricultural practices and the legitimacy of nuclear power when the ...
Viewpoint: Environmental advocacy groups continue to push misinformation about non-existent honeybee crisis, distorting public policy
Given everything bees contribute to our lives, it’s not surprising that the public’s interest in pollinators has increased over time ...
In reversal from prior surveys, Brazilians welcome introduction of drought-tolerant GMO wheat
More than 70% of consumers in Brazil would not have any restrictions related to consumption of transgenic wheat, according to ...
‘Hybrid of Satan’: PolitiFact debunks vaccine rejectionist film ‘Watch the Water’ claiming COVID vaccine is snake venom
A new anti-vaccine documentary ridiculously claims that the coronavirus is not a virus, but a synthetic version of snake venom that ...
Viewpoint: How ‘racial rankings’ based on genetics pollute science and inspire racism
In the aftermath of the massacre in Buffalo, New York, at the hands of a white supremacist terrorist, scientists can ...
How the Green Party-Led Anti-Biotechnology Movement Captured German Policy and Why it Endangers Germany’s Future Innovation in Gene Editing
Wolfgang Nellen, Emeritus Professor of Genetics, University of Kassel | June 27, 2018Highlights:Green Party’s opposition to biotechnology innovation began with its ...
Viewpoint: How science and genetic research are manipulated to bolster white supremacy claims
The white supremacist who drove 200 miles to a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and opened fire, killing 10 people, had posted ...
‘Regenerative agriculture’ has replaced organic as the ‘green’ solution to farming and food. What does it really mean?
The hype about regenerative farming has some sustainable food and climate researchers and advocates concerned. Unlike organic farming, which is ...
Part II: Seeds of Reaction — How anti-GMO ‘progressivism’ morphed into a technophobic science rejectionist movement
Part One of this essay on the evolution of anti-GMO activism ended with an introduction to the book The Rhetoric ...
Genetics plays outsized and underappreciated role in how COVID victims cope with virus after effects
A new paper looks at the genetic contribution to individual wellbeing during the pandemic, seeking to find support for the ...
Djibouti and Oxitec announce pilot project using genetic modification to help remove invasive malaria-transmitting mosquitoes threatening the Horn of Africa
Oxitec Ltd, the leading developer of biological pest control solutions, [May 31] announced the launch of a new partnership with ...
Part 1: Viewpoint — Anti-GMO activists conjure up new scare messages as their influence wanes
It's been ten years of downhill sledding for advocacy groups and activists campaigning to throttle the burgeoning biotechnology revolution transforming ...
COVID misinformation doctors make rounds on lucrative rightwing speech circuit
Two of the most visible right-wing, conservative political movements in the U.S. right now -- "Defeat the Mandates" and the ...
Scotland and Wales reject UK’s crop gene editing regulatory liberalization plans while anti-GMO groups demand labeling
Fury erupted [May 25] over Government plans to allow gene-edited foods to be sold unlabelled in British supermarkets — as ...
No plans for UK to label gene edited foods once agricultural biotechnology reform legislation passes
Shoppers will be unable to tell if they are eating 'gene-edited' foods as part of new government plans to speed ...
Viewpoint: Germany’s anti-GMO ‘Slow Food’ activist group invokes ‘precautionary principle’, demands labeling to block crop gene editing deregulation
A strong lobby of some corporations, technological and scientific associations is committed to exempting new genetic engineering processes from regulation ...
Viewpoint: From energy to agriculture, the mainstream environmentalism movement has become anti-technology
For some reason, an increasing number of writers seem surprised to discover that environmentalists are anti-technology. [Recently,] Josh Barro excoriated “coalitions ...
Will global warming roil natural habitats and unleash zoonotic plagues on humankind?
The word zoonosis comes from the Greek for “animal disease.” It applies to pathogens that can jump both between critters ...
Conspiracist Alex Jones spreads factless claim that monkeypox linked to COVID vaccines
Well, it was only a matter of time before someone started blaming the Covid-19 vaccines for the current ongoing monkeypox ...
Did Russia’s destruction of Ukrainian plant genetic resource center also demolish the country’s National Seed Bank?
Earlier this year, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and while Vladimir Putin's forces have largely retreated from the north ...
Cloud of disinformation: Ghanian scientist challenges anti-GMO scare campaigns in Africa
Africa has a more urgent need than the rest of the world to adopt genetically modified organisms for agricultural improvement, ...
